Website Redesign
Your website worked once.
Let's make it work again.
A redesign rebuilds what is slow, dated, or hard to use without throwing away what your site has already earned. Redesigns are quoted from our public website packages, starting at $2,995.
How to know it's time for a redesign
Websites age quietly. Nothing crashes, no alarm goes off, and one day you notice the inquiries have slowed down. If any of these sound familiar, your site is probably overdue.
It looks dated next to competitors
Visitors compare you to every other site they visited that day, and they judge fast.
It fails on a phone
Text too small, buttons that miss, layouts that break. Most of your visitors are on mobile.
It loads slowly
Slow pages lose visitors before they read a word, and search engines notice too.
You can't update it yourself
If changing a phone number means tracking down whoever built it, the site is working against you.
The phone stopped ringing
The clearest signal of all: a site that used to bring in inquiries and quietly stopped.
Want the longer version? We wrote up the five clear signals your website needs a redesign on the blog.
A good redesign keeps what works and fixes what doesn't
Starting over from zero is rarely the right move. Your current site has things worth protecting, and a careful redesign is built around them.
What we keep
- Your URLs and search equity, protected with redirect planning
- The content that already earns traffic and inquiries
- The brand recognition your customers already have
What we fix
- Speed, so pages load before visitors give up
- Structure, so people and search engines can find their way
- Mobile, so the site works on the screens your customers actually use
- Clarity, so a first-time visitor understands what you do in seconds
- Calls to action, so interested visitors know exactly what to do next
A redesign is also the right moment to fix the SEO basics, and we plan redirects carefully so you do not throw away the authority your old pages earned. To be clear, we do not promise rankings; we protect what you have and give the new site a stronger base to build on.
How a redesign works
A redesign runs on the same five milestones as a new build, so you always know where things stand. Most projects go from kickoff to launch in 4 to 8 weeks.
1. Discovery
We review your current site together: what works, what doesn't, and what the new one needs to do.
2. Design mockups
You see the new look and structure before anything is built, and shape it with us.
3. Development
We rebuild the site: fast pages, clean structure, and redirects mapped from your old URLs.
4. Revisions
Three revision rounds are included, so the details get right before launch, not after.
5. Launch and support
We handle the switchover, then stick around: every project includes three months of site care.
What a redesign costs, and what it's built on
Redesigns are quoted from the same public website packages as new builds, starting at $2,995 for a Launch Site. Your final quote is confirmed in writing before work begins, and every starting price is listed on our website design pricing.
Most redesigns are rebuilt as custom websites, because for a typical small-business site that is the stronger technical foundation: fewer moving parts, less to break, and a structure search engines read easily. But if you plan to blog frequently or edit pages yourself, WordPress may serve you better, and if you want the simplest possible site to manage, Squarespace can be the right call. We rebuild on whichever platform fits how you actually work.
Redesigns that clients noticed
Here is what two clients said after we rebuilt sites that had gone stale.
"Our website was stale and outdated before Matt came on board! He took our ideas and updated everything to create a more professional, easier-to-understand site for our patients. He thoroughly explained all the changes and gave us great feedback so we could shine online."
- Rehabilitation & Orthopedic Center
"Working with Matt at BurdsNerds over the past few years has been a pleasure. His creative vision and attention to detail have truly transformed my online presence."
- The Trauma Recovery Collaborative
Common questions
A careful redesign is planned to prevent exactly that. We map your old URLs to the new ones with redirects and keep the pages and content that earn traffic, so the authority your site has built carries forward. We do not make ranking guarantees, but protecting what your old pages have earned is exactly what redirect planning is for.
Not every tired website needs a rebuild. If the structure underneath is sound and the site mostly needs fresh content, fixes, and regular attention, a monthly care plan may be all it takes. We will look at your site and tell you honestly which one you need, even when the answer is the cheaper option.
Yes. We redesign sites regardless of what they were built on. Many redesigns become custom-built websites because that gives most small-business sites a cleaner, faster foundation, but if WordPress or Squarespace matches how you plan to run your site, we rebuild it there instead and say so up front.
Most redesigns run 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff to launch, on the same milestones as a new build: discovery, mockups, development, revisions, and launch. The biggest variable is content. When copy, photos, and feedback arrive on time, timelines hold.
Redesigns are quoted from the same public website packages as new builds, starting at $2,995 for a Launch Site. The final number depends on page count, content, and integrations, and you see the quote in writing before any work begins. All pricing is public on our pricing page.
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